NFL GAME DAY DISCUSSION Week 15 Other NFL Games Thread

[RobertWeathers]

I hear you, but I think it’s more complicated than that.

Here’s an example : even though I personally hate hockey, it’s a cult here in Canada. Recently, there was an outbreak on a university campus in my province and my son had a game at the campus rink. Hockey can’t help itself. Cults rarely do. Province had to step in and cancel the game. The nfl is (obviously) bigger than NS minor hockey. Maybe authorities know people can’t stop themselves. Maybe govt officials felt that pushing back a few games gives them a better chance to mitigate a spreader even that could strain an already strained system ? I think pushing it back makes sense as being cautious doesn’t change much in this instance imo. Might « give a team more players », but playing on short week following balances that I’d think.

Agree. It is more complicated than my simplistic view but IMO for healthy NFL players who are fully vax'd and have mild to no symptoms they should play and not go into protocol. That's really my only point.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

 

[farn]

Agree. It is more complicated than my simplistic view but IMO for healthy NFL players who are fully vax'd and have mild to no symptoms they should play and not go into protocol. That's really my only point.

Let’s put it THIS way : if Russell Wilson or Carr test positive during the weekend (or like MON morning), the league will have a LOT of explaining to do…

 

[Foxypats]

I thought games would be forfeited this year if there was a COVID outbreak

 

[venecol]

It’s the same as every NFL rule: make as much money as we can without getting arrested. Everything else is just propaganda.

Commissioner Goodell it's a guy with a Guido accent on line 3 for you.

 

[Calhoun44]

Here’s an example : even though I personally hate hockey

Disclaimer: The following rant is mostly fake outrage by me... But I am still somewhat in a state of disbelief...

Rant: I'm sorry, but this doesn't seem possible to me. First off, hockey is my favorite sport to watch, and it is not even close. Secondly, how does someone have a child that plays hockey at a pretty high level, and I imagine you have been to lots of games, how can you hate hockey? When my kids were running X-Country I was surprised how much I grew to enjoy the sport.

Thanks for listening...Carry on.

 

[captain stone]

God Hates Us All.

- Slayer

 

[farn]

Disclaimer: The following rant is mostly fake outrage by me... But I am still somewhat in a state of disbelief...

Rant: I'm sorry, but this doesn't seem possible to me. First off, hockey is my favorite sport to watch, and it is not even close. Secondly, how does someone have a child that plays hockey at a pretty high level, and I imagine you have been to lots of games, how can you hate hockey? When my kids were running X-Country I was surprised how much I grew to enjoy the sport.

Thanks for listening...Carry on.

Heehee.

I live in rural Canada and the sun sets early, the rinks are far away (sometimes over 6 hours in the car on ice roads) and they are cold. I’ve once been outside - in January - because the Bridgetown rink was colder inside.

Parents are psycho. Dude, your Bantam AA son isn’t going to be Sidney Crosby. Like, at 14, Sid was no where near AA. He probably never sniffed AA (playing major in every level - with players 2-3-4 years older)

Funny part ? He’s in a so so level at best. Even two levels lower, they go to tourneys in PEI which is 7 hours away. He is the only reason I go, obviously. Love the kid, hate the sport.

My father, brother, and I always preferred baseball. Back in the day, baseball was so much cheaper and my father (1946) was never able to afford skates. He’d listen to the Red Sox on the radio stations from Boston (we can easily get AM stations from southern Nova Scotia). Which is why so many people around here are Boston sports fans. Looking at the custom licence plates, you’d think we’re in Massachusetts…

 

[TBR]

I hear you, but I think it’s more complicated than that.

Here’s an example : even though I personally hate hockey, it’s a cult here in Canada. Recently, there was an outbreak on a university campus in my province and my son had a game at the campus rink. Hockey can’t help itself. Cults rarely do. Province had to step in and cancel the game. The nfl is (obviously) bigger than NS minor hockey. Maybe authorities know people can’t stop themselves. Maybe govt officials felt that pushing back a few games gives them a better chance to mitigate a spreader even that could strain an already strained system ? I think pushing it back makes sense as being cautious doesn’t change much in this instance imo. Might « give a team more players », but playing on short week following balances that I’d think.

No good reason to cancel it. Whether it was for a hockey game or a figure skating practice. The atmosphere of fear that's been created is so dumb and nonsensical. COVID isn't lingering around, staying alive at hockey arenas, benches, and locker rooms, ready to infect the next group of people who show up.

 

[farn]

No good reason to cancel it. Whether it was for a hockey game or a figure skating practice. The atmosphere of fear that's been created is so dumb and nonsensical. COVID isn't lingering around, staying alive at hockey arenas, benches, and locker rooms, ready to infect the next group of people who show up.

Of course not. But the carriers are bringing it to large groups of people and they are getting infected. There is a difference between fear & cancelling a large gathering - that isn’t essential - in order to keep an already stretched healthcare system up and running.

Anyways, I don’t think we’ll agree on this issue. Perhaps we will agree on the fact that this’ll become a you-know-whatShow if key Browns return to action and key Raiders test positive (and are rules out) Monday am…

 

[One-If-By-Sea]

When my kids were running X-Country I was surprised how much I grew to enjoy the sport.

Thanks for listening...Carry on.

Parents are psycho. Dude, your Bantam AA son isn’t going to be Sidney Crosby. Like, at 14, Sid was no where near AA. He probably never sniffed AA (playing major in every level - with players 2-3-4 years older)

Funny part ? He’s in a so so level at best. Even two levels lower, they go to tourneys in PEI which is 7 hours away. He is the only reason I go, obviously. Love the kid, hate the sport.

I am on team @farn. I have three kids that all played "travel sports". Unfortunately the last one was the best athlete. By the time I started carting the youngest one around I was exhausted watching kids play games. My youngest ended up with a 4 year college track scholarship, so she was an athlete, but like farn says, she was good, not great. Standing at the soccer field watching parents go NUTS about nothing was interesting - it took all of the fun out of it. I still enjoy soccer, basketball and track, but that does not mean I enjoy kids trying to play those sports.

We had one basketball coach who was so NUTS three of the girls quit the team. A month later the three girls, together with 3 of their friends (1 sub), entered a basketball tournament to play against the team they left. At halftime the score was 32-4. My daughter said she had made her point and did not care to ever play basketball again. I was so happy to cross basketball off the list of games I had to attend.

It is kids playing a game (not a sport IMHO), and the parents and coaches, plus all of the ridiculous waiting and traveling, make it unenjoyable.

 

[WaterfallJumper]

Good news:


I missed the Joe Buck comment about Parham being cold. If that's really what he said - what a moron.

He said that he hoped it was only the cold that was making him shake. He sounded pretty nervous about what had just happened. Maybe keeping his mouth shut would have been smarter, but I didn't think he was really that far out of line -- he just was hopeful that Parham wasn't grievously injured. Anyway, I also hope that Parham is doing well. It was certainly a sad, disturbing moment.

 

[n1997y]

I thought games would be forfeited this year if there was a COVID outbreak

What I heard on the radio was “if a game could not be rescheduled” because of an outbreak among “unvaccinated players” the team responsible would forfeit. The trigger would be inability to field the required minimum number of players (iirc 48) between regular roster and practice squad callups. So having 22+ (I think) players out with Covid is the threshold.

 

[Mack Herron]

 

[Fuzz]

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We had one basketball coach who was so NUTS three of the girls quit the team. A month later the three girls, together with 3 of their friends (1 sub), entered a basketball tournament to play against the team they left. At halftime the score was 32-4. My daughter said she had made her point and did not care to ever play basketball again. I was so happy to cross basketball off the list of games I had to attend.
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Haha that’s a great story! Sounds like a better version of the plot from Varsity Blues.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

Dr Chao spot on again...

 

[sb1]

Go Panthers, Steelers, Jete, Packers

 

[StanleyGrogan]

The Camolina Miracle ... you just gotta believe. Its gonna be a hell of a story.

 

[NashuaPats]

I just realized I’m going to have to root for the Packers and Steelers today. Yuck.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

You Bucs fans better be rooting for the Packers today...